Jodi Balfour

Jodi Balfour is a South African actress born on October 29, 1986. She gained recognition for her role as Gladys Witham in the series Bomb Girls (2012–2013), for which she won a Canadian Screen Award. Balfour stars as Ellen Waverly Wilson in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind (2019–). She grew up in Cape Town and co-hosted the South African youth television series Bling. Balfour studied drama at the University of Cape Town and competed in the Miss South Africa 2008 pageant. Since her graduation in 2009, she has primarily worked in British and Canadian film and television productions. She also won a Canadian Screen Award for her performance in the Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy television film.